Improvement in frames for holding ornamental or fancy pottery tiles for use as



G. A.-'WELLINGTON. Frames fof Holding Ornamental or Fancy Pottery-Tilesfor Use as Stands. No. 212,335. Patented Feb. 18,1879.

N.PEI'ERS. PHDTO-LITNOGRAFHER. WASHINGTON. D C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. WELLINGTON, OF EAST LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FRAMES FOR HOLDING ORNAMENTAL OR FANCY POTTERY TILES FORUSE AS STANDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 212,335, dated February18, 1879; application filed January 6, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OHAs. A. WELLING- TON, of East Lexington, county ofMiddlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement inFrames for Holding Ornamental or Fancy Pottery Tiles for Use as Stands,of which the following description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to an apparatus to hold vitreous or other tilesfor stands, 850.; and consists of independent metallic corner pieces,having feet, combined with a cornerpiece holder, which connects the feetor corner pieces together after being placed upon the tile,substantially as hereinafter described, to keep them in place; also, ina tile-holder, independent socketed corner pieces, combined withseparable edge pieces fitted to the corner pieces, and inside of whichthe tile is held.

The object of this invention is to furnish a cheap, durable, strong, andyet very artistic holder for tiles, the corner pieces being appliedreadily to tiles of various sizes, covering or inclosing the corners ofthe tiles, so that they cannot be broken; the tiles, mounted as thusspecified, being designed for use as stands for coffee or tea pots,flowerpots, 850.

Figure 1 represents, in top view, a tile set in a tile-holder inaccordance with my invention; and Fig. 2, an under-side view thereof.

The tile a may be of any usual kind. The corner pieces I), as will beevident from the drawings, are made to embrace or receive within themthe corners of the tile, and also the ends of the edge pieces 0, whichwill preferably be made of wood, either in natural or fancy colors, theedge pieces bearing against the side edges of the tile between thecorner pieces.

All the corner pieces, preferably of castbrass, and provided with feet00, as well as the edge pieces,are separable each from the other and byadapting the length of the edge pieces to the size of the tile, thecorner pieces and the said edge pieces will hold a tile of the desiredsize.

The corner pieces below the tile are embraced above their feet as bymeans ofa corner-piece holder, d, shown as composed of a wire, connectedor soldered together at 0, where its ends meet, the holder being shownas bent at f, to throw the main part of the holder-welt under the tile.

Each corner piece has projecting from its under side a rest, 3, whichmay be bent by pliers, to bear upon the under side of the tile at itscorners, to set it up well into the upper portion of the corner piece,and hold it firmly, thus adapting the corner pieces to tiles ofdifi'erent thicknesses.

I claim- 1. The combination, with a tile, of independent removabletile-holders, socketed to receive and protect the corners of the tile,substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the independent corner pieces I), of thecorner-piece holder, applied to the corner pieces, to hold them inposition at the corners of the tile, substantially as described.

3. The independent corner pieces and cornenpiece holder, to hold themin'place when applied to the tile, combined with independent edgepieces,interposed between the corner pieces and the edges of the tile,substantially as described.

4. The corner pieces, shaped to embrace and protect the tile at itscorners above and below, provided with adjustable rests 3, to operatesubstantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHAS. A. WELLINGTON.

Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, L. F. CONNOR.

